MSFS | DC-3 Shared cockpit on VATSIM

[@ianfisher101]

Hi Peter, nice video. A few observations from someone who is well versed in shared cockpit having done lots in the Majestic Q400. First a short intro Your Controls would have been useful for those of us who don’t know anything about the app. Your already aware of the audio level problem so I’ll leave that one. As far as I’m aware the whole idea of shared cockpit is to share the workload amongst the crew. My impression of watching this was that apart from a few radio calls and other minor operations your co-pilot had very little to do. You were reading the checklist, doing the flow, responding to yourself and doing most of the switch operations. Normal SOP would be for the PM to read the checklist and the PF to respond. You were doing flaps, gear, mixture, props, lights and heading select etc instead of asking the co-pilot to carry those items out leaving you to do the flying. I noticed your co-pilot connected to Vpilot as Observer when he was the one handling the comms, You should have been. Your ILS tracking was slightly compromised by you taking screen shots but that’s got nothing to do the shared cockpit so not relevant to this. All in all it’s a promising app and one I’m sure to have a go with myself. It’s a learning experience for all us sim pilots that are used to doing everything single handed. Learning to share responsibility is tricky and like most things needs practice. Looking forward to more of this kind of content.

[@PeterMatthess]

Thanks Ian, yes Marvin wasn't confident on flying the DC-3 so thats why we split up the tasks the way we did. But I hope to get into the meat of proper shared responsibility like you say. The good thing about Your Controls is that is INCREDIBLY easy to setup, just a few clicks and your done. None of the difficulty of port numbers and IP addresses like the Majestic. And sometimes getting un-synced, although you did see on approach how Marvin disconnected and reconnected in the air without being kicked and not getting back onto the flight deck, which I think is really good. We could have flown a lot more by the book but neither of us were used to shared cockpit in a long time so decided to play it loosey-goosey on this one

[@PeterMatthess]

would be delighted to have your company in the DC-3 on MSFS shared cockpit!!

[@dennk9505]

Nice vid! The only thing I'm missing is a DME measurement. You can follow the VORs but you don't know how far away you are. I'm not confident enough to fly with clock also it's too unreliable I think. So the only two options you have are with GPS (which I don't want) or classic without DME. It's a pity :( You're cheating as well with hovering the mouse over the instrument. I was hoping there is a switch or something I don't know of. What i'm wondering though is: There is a switch on radio panel called "DME" (beside com 1, 2 and so on). What does it do as we don't have a DME readout?

[@PeterMatthess]

If you mouse over the VOR needle on the guage it will actually give you the DME readout in the tooltip, the developer of the duckworths mod did that to help us flyers out. Despite the fact that its not 100% realistic

[@dennk9505]

@@PeterMatthess Yeah, thanks. For that I need to have tooltips on what I have turned off for the sake of realism. Well, I guess I have to die one death 😅 thanks for the reply.

[@MajorFlawes]

Nice video, was that the stock dc3 or were you using the duckworks mod? I may try to brave vatsim if the duckworks mod works in yourcintrols 😊

[@PeterMatthess]

@@MajorFlawes yes this was the duckworths mod on vatsim using your controls, worked pretty flawlessly, the only thing that’s not visually synced was the cowl flap controls, but you could see that the cowl flaps were actually synced when you looked out of the window

[@MajorFlawes]

@@PeterMatthess fantastic! Thanks

[@colinboone9920]

Killer! Love it!